Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World WarDaggett, Mabel Potter
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Women wanted: The story written in blood red letters on the horizon of the Great World War
Daggett, Mabel Potter
Women -- Employment; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
Then, hark! Hear the Dead March again! As inexorably as in the
workshops and the offices, it began to echo through the seminaries and
the colleges, through the laboratories and the law courts. Listen!
The sound of marching feet. The new woman movement is here too at the
doors. High on the walls of Leipzig and the Sorbonne, of Oxford and
Cambridge and Moscow and Milan, on all of the old world institutions of
learning, the long scrolls of the casualty lists commenced to go up.
Whole cloisters and corridors began to be black with the names of men
“dead on the field of honour.” And civilisation faced the inexorable
sequel. Women at last in the professions now are taking title on equal
terms with men.
The doors of a very old established institution in Fifty-ninth Street,
New York, swung open on a day last autumn. And a line of young women
passed through. They went up the steps to take their place—for the
first time that women had ever been there—in the class rooms of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. There is perhaps a little awkward
moment of surprise, of curiosity. A professor nods in recognition to
the new comers. The class of 1921 smiles good naturedly. An incident is
closed.
And an epoch is begun. Outside on a high scaffolding there are masons
and carpenters at work. See them up there against a golden Indian
summer sky. They are putting the finishing touches on a new $80,000
building addition. And the ringing of their hammers and chisels,
the scraping of their trowels is but significant of larger building
operations on a stupendous scale not made by human hands.
A LOOK BACKWARD IN MEDICINE
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